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A comparison of reservoir gas energy and composition with respect to initial oil production in the San Andres Formation of Shafter Lake Field, Andrews County, Texas
(2018-05-14)The oil-rich, Permian-age San Andres Formation in the Permian Basin of West Texas produces Wolfcampian-age oil from the dolomitic host rock in prolific amounts. The present study focuses on the Shafter Lake field and ... -
A COMPARISON OF SMART CITY INDICATORS FOR THREE TOP TEN US CITIES
(2017-05-23)The world population has been increasing each year, and the immigration from rural to urban cities has increased as well. The United Nations has estimated that more than 66% of people worldwide live in urban area, and this ... -
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Evolution of Coastal Flooding in Texas and Louisiana for Application in Risk Assessment
(2022-12-09)Coastal communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico have historically been at risk of flooding from tropical cyclone induced storm surge and extreme precipitation. Relative sea level rise resulting from a combination of ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE BEHAVIORAL STUDY ON LANE CHANGING MANUEVERS
(2019-05-22)Since changing lanes might cause traffic congestion and car crashes, the investigation on different aspects of this behavior remains critical. In the past decades, most of lane changing behavior studies have continued to ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK TO MITIGATE SURFICIAL SLOPE FAILURES
(2021-05-09)Each year, numerous highway and dam slopes that are built with high plasticity clays experience shallow slope failures. Besides the high maintenance and repair costs, these failures negatively impact the public life by ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK FOR THE SEISMIC EVALUATION OF HYDRAULIC FILL DAMS IN NORTH TEXAS
Hydraulic filling is a construction procedure that was used for earthen structures during the mid-1800s to the early 1900s; however, dams and levees that were constructed by implementing this technique had a significant ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC RESPONSE AND SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE STABILITY OF HYDRAULIC-FILL DAMS
(2018-08-13)The stability and serviceability of earthen embankment structures such as dams and levees are extremely crucial to avoid the catastrophic consequences of the failure of these structures. Such man-made geo-structures are ... -
A Continuously Renewed Copper Electrode for Constant-Potential Amperometry
(2022-12-09)Pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) is a well-established technique used for the detection of electroactive compounds following Ion Chromatography (IC). Target analytes, such as carbohydrates and amino acids, typically ... -
A Critical State Approach to the Mechanical Behavior of Early-Age Cemented Paste Backfill
(2019-12-16)Low plasticity to non-plastic mine tailings are typically transported to a storage area through pipelines in form of slurry or thickened tailings. The main concern with such tailings deposits is the possibility of liquefaction ... -
A Cross Section Measurement of Muon Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Coherent Positive Pion Production on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector
(2022-05-17)Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent pion production is an important channel for the study of neutrino-nucleus interactions. It is both a dangerous background for $\nu_{e}$ oscillation experiments, and a critical ... -
A CULTURAL CONSENSUS ANALYSIS OF TYPE II DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION
There has been a dearth of information that explains group beliefs about chronic diseases. The overall aim of this study was to use both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand consensus in illness beliefs among ... -
A Cultural Landscape Assessment of Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas
In 2014, having just been sold, Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas closed for the final time having been open for over 100 years also producing two of the top ten golfers in PGA history, Ben Hogan and Byron ... -
A DATA DRIVEN, HOSPITAL QUALITY OF CARE PORTAL FOR THE PATIENT COMMUNITY
(2016-05-10)With the recent changes in health services provision, patients are members of a consumer driven health care system. However, the health care consumers are not presented with adequate opportunities to enhance their position ... -
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SUCCESS OF POST-HURRICANE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES
(2020-09-03)In the aftermath of hurricanes, when reliable transportation systems are vital, the chaotic and complex environment creates multiple uncertainties and risks in the reconstruction of transportation infrastructures. Damaged ... -
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC DIVERSION AROUND CONSTRUCTION CLOSURES
(2016-08-12)As highway infrastructure ages and road congestion increases, roads need to be expanded and reconstructed. It results in creating many construction sites and work zones on highways, which leads to an unavoidable interruption ... -
A Decision Support System Tool for Dynamic Pricing of Managed Lanes
(2016-09-16)Congestion pricing and managed lanes (ML) have been recently gaining interest around the country as a congestion management tool and as a means of revenue generation for facility maintenance and expansion as well repayment ... -
A Deep Chandra Study of Galactic Type Ia Supernova Remnant G299.2-2.9
(2017-12-07)In this thesis we perform a comprehensive analysis of Galactic Type Ia supernova remnant G299.2-2.9. For this study we analyze our deep 628 ks Chandra observation data of G299.2-2.9. G299.2-2.9 has a complex multiple ... -
A DEEP LEARNING BASED PIPELINE FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATION FROM WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES (WSI)
Pathology is a 150-year-old medical specialty that has seen a paradigm shift over the past few years with the advent of Digital Pathology. Digital Pathology is a very promising approach to diagnostic medicine to accomplish ... -
A Density Functional Theory Guide To High Quality Modification Of Mixed Metal Oxides Used For Photocatalytic Water Splitting
(Physics, 2015)Phase stability and charge transport of pristine and transition metal alloyed bismuth titanate (Bi2Ti2O7, a.k.a. BTO), a photocatalytic water splitter, has been studied using the generalized gradient approximated density ... -
A design and analysis of computer experiments approach for green building
(2016-12-07)The coming shortage of energy sources and critical environmental impacts are two major factors that have forced a change in product design processes. The shortage of energy sources is related to the limitation on non-renewable ...